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Work 67
her taste, and the children found in her their
dearest and most enjoyable teacher. Her
motherliness showed her the way to their
hearts, and the pupils all loved her.
Anna Whitlock's now famous co-educational
school, one of the foremost in Stockholm, had
opened, a few years previous, as a small private
school for girls. In the autumn of 1880,
Ellen Key became a teacher there, and also
lived with Anna Whitlock until 1884, when
she rented a room of her own on Villa Street,
and later a small fiat on Valhalla Road, in
order to be at least near the woods.
Her pupils, now mature women, speak with
gratitude and enthusiasm of her lessons w^hich
often "reached heights of truly religious in-
spiration," as one expresses it. "She instilled
in us pure thoughts and high ideals," is the
testimony of another. A third has pleasingly
related her reminiscence of one of the lessons,
which, for a special reason, became a lesson in
personal purity.
'
' The hour was to have been
devoted to a French poet, but on her way to
school, Ellen Key had seen two of her pupils
of the fifth class engaged in a lively flirtation
with a couple of high-school boys, therefore
she took the opportunity to speak on a subject
that did not ordinarily belong to the school
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